"Gamin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great Elizabeth, that of France from 1830 to the present hour—have broadened their appeal to every class. The queen and the orange-girl joyed together in the healthiness of Rosalind; the king and the gamin laughed together at the rogueries of Scapin. The breadth of Shakespeare's appeal remains one of the most significant facts in the history of the drama. Tell a filthy-faced urchin of the gutter that you know about a play that shows a ghost ...
— The Theory of the Theatre • Clayton Hamilton
... Joinville was dressed as a bargee and affected the manner of a street gamin. She likes to go to those places that the court detests the most, *the theatres ...
— The Memoirs of Victor Hugo • Victor Hugo
... I'll be sworn," said she, pulling me round by the arm, full in front of her. "Answer me, 'Gamin,' where didst ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various
... hall, an actress singin' the Marseillaise in a flag, and a Roosian hussy dancin' in boots. And Mr. O'Neill, God save him for a pleasant gentleman though a bit wild in the eye, took my Dinny up to be a gamin. Gay-min. I thought myself he said a 'gay mon' and Dinny's a bit young; but I found he meant him to peddle cigarettes ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... that he might work longer without interruption. His father intended him for an engineer, but he was determined from the first to be an artist. He was of a gay and jovial disposition, given to pranks and practical jokes, and of an athletic temperament. Theophile Gautier afterward called him a "gamin de genie." In 1847, when he was fifteen years old, being in Paris with his parents, he called upon Phillippon, the publisher, and showed him some of his sketches. M. Phillippon looked at them, and sent a letter to Dore's ...
— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various
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